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Mental Health Patients’ Experiences Of Being Misunderstood, Mona Shattell, Laura Gaillard, Sandra Thomas
Mental Health Patients’ Experiences Of Being Misunderstood, Mona Shattell, Laura Gaillard, Sandra Thomas
Mona Shattell
Background: Mental health patients describe “being understood” as an experience that evokes feelings of importance, worthiness, and empowerment. However, the experience of “being misunderstood” is more prevalent in patients’ relationships with health care providers. Negative consequences such as vulnerability, dehumanization, and frustration reveal that being misunderstood has the potential to damage or destroy therapeutic relationships. Objective: The purpose of this secondary analysis was to examine mental health patients’ experiences of being misunderstood. Study Design: Data consisted of transcripts from 20 interviews with community-dwelling adults with mental illness, which were analyzed using an existential phenomenological approach. Results: Four figural themes expressed …
Depression In Latinas Residing In Emerging Latino Immigrant Communities In The United States, Mona Shattell, Jose Villalba, Natalie Stokes, Desmina Hamilton, Jaimie Foster, Harald Petrini, Kristina Johnson, Norma Hinderliter, Claretta Witherspoon, R. Kathy Hinshaw, Chris Faulkner
Depression In Latinas Residing In Emerging Latino Immigrant Communities In The United States, Mona Shattell, Jose Villalba, Natalie Stokes, Desmina Hamilton, Jaimie Foster, Harald Petrini, Kristina Johnson, Norma Hinderliter, Claretta Witherspoon, R. Kathy Hinshaw, Chris Faulkner
Mona Shattell
This study examined the ways in which depression affects immigrant Latina women residing in an emerging Latino immigrant community in the US. Three Spanish-language focus groups were conducted within a community-based participatory research framework. Latina women expressed concerns about their immigration status, separation from family in their native countries, and about finances and inabilities to meet family obligations. They expressed fears for their children in the US. Their sociopolitical, economic, and familial explanations for depression differ from the individual, biological explanations of depression common today. Implications for policy makers, community organizers, health care providers, public health educators, and school counselors …
Stigmatizing Language With Unintended Meanings: "Persons With Mental Illness" Or "Mentally Ill Persons"?, Mona Shattell
Stigmatizing Language With Unintended Meanings: "Persons With Mental Illness" Or "Mentally Ill Persons"?, Mona Shattell
Mona Shattell
No abstract provided.
Why Does "Pain Management" Exclude Psychic Pain?, Mona Shattell
Why Does "Pain Management" Exclude Psychic Pain?, Mona Shattell
Mona Shattell
No abstract provided.
Advice To New Graduates: Get (At Least) One Year Of Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing Experience Before Working In Medical-Surgical Settings, Mona Shattell
Mona Shattell
No abstract provided.